“No matter how old we get, life’s always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you’ve learned ten times before.”

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don’t know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

For just once in my life, I’d like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who’s got an attitude about the way I look.

“Criminal justice” was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.’ My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

God is teaching you a Lesson of Victory.

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That’s the last place you’ll find those lessons readable.

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

If I’ve learned any one lesson from life, it’s this: If you don’t stand for something, you will stand for anything.

The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.